
CM 240: Adam Alter on Simple Ways to Get Unstuck
Curious Minds at Work
The Creative Cliff Illusion
The author of three books says that it will get hard before you hit on the right ideas. Humans are very good at what is known as metacognition, he says. So if a task gets suddenly more difficult, what was easy becomes hard and we feel the need to act. "You will hit a plateau in pretty much anything you do unless you change what you're doing"
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